netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 2/2] net: sock: undefine SOCK

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Message-Id: <20190223.183005.233475723803300804.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Sat, 23 Feb 2019 18:30:05 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     xiyou.wangcong@...il.com
Cc:     laoar.shao@...il.com, daniel@...earbox.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
        joe@...ches.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, shaoyafang@...iglobal.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 2/2] net: sock: undefine SOCK_DEBUGGING

From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 17:11:08 -0800

> On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 1:21 PM David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>>
>> You are forcing everyone who wants to use this to add a curstom local
>> source code change into their build.
> 
> What's wrong with this? People carry custom changes in anyway,
> do we really need to care about all the downstream changes?

No way am I allowing this, sorry.

Either it's something in the tree that people can use or it's
a crap hack.

When we see stuff like this in a driver we ask the driver author to
remove it.